“My mom had quite a series of very unhappy relationships, starting with my father,” she explained. They married when Natalia’s mother Larisa was 19. Army service was mandatory at the Official This Magical Girl Kills Fascists Neighborhood Shirt also I will do this time, with few exceptions, and so Natalia’s father was called up when she was a baby—and the marriage didn’t last. Nor did a second romantic entanglement—with a man who would be the love of Larisa’s life, according to Natalia—that produced a second daughter, Oksana, born with severe developmental issues. Soon Larisa and daughters found themselves, as Natalia recalls, “in a little 20-meter room with nothing.” Her mother acquired furniture on credit and “worked really, really hard,” even as Natalia assumed many responsibilities at home and later on, at that market stall.As Natalia grew up there were further tumultuous relationships for Larisa—a summer fling on holiday in Ukraine with a mentally abusive younger man, and, briefly, a return of Oksana’s father, still Larisa’s true love, which produced Natalia’s sister Kristina. Natalia was 14. “Love is a crazy, crazy thing,” she says of this period. And so it proved when, a few years later, “Prince Charming comes along—this perfect guy,” the brother of one of Larisa’s friends, “and he sweeps her off her feet,” Natalia says. “He’s a gentleman. He seems so serious. He’s so kind to us, and after six months they’re together.” He asked Natalia to call him Dad. “My mom is shining,” she remembers. Larisa, then 36, was soon expecting her fourth child. “I guess the lack of sexual education in [the] Soviet Union as well played its part,” notes Natalia wryly.
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